Floris about this shoe:

''Meetings, those are one of the most pointless things that I can imagine. When I am in a meeting I normally draw little puppets. At a certain moment during a very long meeting I realised that I was trying to make all these puppets fit into each other so you get a large all-over pattern. Subsequently I spend a few more hours on this and now it has become a beautiful pattern that is applied underneath this sole. It contains all different kind of animals: an elephant, a dinosaur, an octopus, a dachshund, a bird etc. It has become some kind of 'Escher on mushrooms'. Apart from that, the shoe is just a nice basic boot with a wide fit.''

Van Bommel shoemaking is still a matter of craftsmanship and we continuously strive to create the best fit possible. But it is also this very aspiration which can make it more difficult to determine your right shoe size. Below you will find a size conversion chart detailing European sizes in centimetres and how these numbers translate into UK sizes for you to easily determine your size.

EU size

Length in cm

Exact UK size

Recommended UK size

38

25,3

4,9

5

38½

25,7

5,3

5,5

39

26,0

5,7

6

39½

26,3

6,1

6

40

26,7

6,5

6,5

40½

27,0

6,9

7

41

27,3

7,3

7,5

41½

27,7

7,7

8

42

28,0

8,1

8

42½

28,3

8,5

8,5

43

28,7

8,9

9

43½

29,0

9,3

9,5

44

29,3

9,6

9,5

44½

29,7

10,0

10

45

30,0

10,4

10,5

45½

30,3

10,8

11

46

30,7

11,2

11,5

46½

31,0

11,6

11,5

47

31,3

12,0

12

47½

31,7

12,4

12,5

48

32,0

12,8

13

48½

32,3

13,2

13,5

49

32,7

13,6

13,5

Product information

Casual, mid-high lace shoe

White nubuck leather with a fine mini-pattern

Dark blue round laces made of waxed cotton

White rubber sole made of blue rubber with a relief pattern, finished with an animal print and leather trim